Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

436 A bitch till the end.

Brian stared dazedly at the image on the screen without knowing how much time had passed. His brain refused to get out of the trauma he was in. The young man looked to his right and then left. Now he understood why he had the best room with the best interiors in the house. He used to think that Nancy made his room this way to cage him, but now, he started to imagine how excited she was when this room was being designed. (

Brian stood up and rushed to Nancy’s room, hoping she might still be there. The number of times he had come here could be counted with one hand–they were when he had grown to this age. Most of the time, the door would be locked. But this time, his trembling hand was able to open the door without effort.

Entering the room, it has no life at all. The white walls and white furniture reminds him of a VIP ward in a hospital. His dazed eyes roamed the room for a moment before he trudged to her bed and slowly raised the screen.

Just like Nancy, her bed looked cold and lonely. A teardrop slipped down his eye and he slumped on the neatly arranged bed, but his nose couldn’t take a whiff of her scent, which meant she didn’t sleep on the bed for some days.

Had she been sitting all night? Or… he suddenly remembered that Jeslyn had told him she saw Nancy at the garden in the middle of the night. Does that not imply that she had been roaming the house, unable to sleep for days? No wonder she was growing paler and paler!

What had she been thinking? Why was she punishing herself?!

killed but he never thought to see how she was doing, yet they lived under the same roof. Yesterday, she didn’t come out to eat. He should have known that something was wrong when she also didn’t

sheets tightened with every realization that crossed his mind. Veins popped on his arms and forehead. The young man

dresses. They weren’t her most expensive or her best, yet she had worn them

to Brian, they became her favorite dresses because she bought them from his brand. While going through her stuff, he came across

Mum, how could you do this to

The

broke down in tears. How could this be? How could he not know all of these? Why did he ignore her? Why was he not

blamed himself because he never tried to understand her or tried to be a

sorrow, Jeslyn was on her way to the Capital. Although she won the battle against Nancy, she felt she rather lost…including her emotions

she rescued Pink, tears gushed out of Jeslyn’s eyes again. That woman is

the Residence, a person who introduced himself

Nancy left the City and went into seclusion, she left this video recording for you.” The lawyer played the video on his

rescued your mother. I’m–pleased if that’s the case. Chatting with you all these while, I realized my mistake and discovered that hanging around Hwang and waiting for the perfect time to seek revenge, is not the best

returns.

brother doesn’t care about power. All he wants is a simple life where he’s allowed to do what he loves and stay with